Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 11:34:40 -0600 (CST) From: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> To: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: milunovic <milunovic@sendmail.ru>, <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: echo request deny Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0102061133480.14857-100000@achilles.silby.com> In-Reply-To: <20010206111510.A25095@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
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On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, David Malone wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 12:05:47PM +0000, milunovic wrote: > > Is there anyway to deny echo request on FreeBSD (except ipfw add deny > > icmp from any to any) ? > > On Linux It was simple,just echo 1>/proc/.../icmp_echo_request > > You can limit the icmp response rate with: > > sysctl -w net.inet.icmp.icmplim=whatever > > where 'whatever' is the number of responses to allow in a second. > You can't set it to zero however. > > David. Echo requests are only limited in -CURRENT right now, I haven't MFC'd the change yet. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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